Chapter 219: Market Leaks (1/3)
Zhao Xu, who slowly walked out of the tavern, couldn't help but weigh the bag of coins in his hand.
The five players who were greedy for him probably really had a deal ready to take place today, otherwise they wouldn't have deliberately packed a whole bag of coins.
That Wolan really didn't lie, the bag of coins in Zhao Xu's hand was worth nearly a thousand gold coins.
However, it contained platinum coins worth ten times as much as gold coins, and there were hundreds of them in total.
Generally, caravans only use this currency, and to the next level, there is a "golden ticket" guaranteed by a magic association or a temple.
It's just that Zhao Xu hasn't seen this thing yet.
When Zhao Xu walked on the familiar "strolling street" again, he was still thinking about the scene that had just happened in his mind.
In the Floating City, those high-ring mages have an average intelligence of more than 20+ per capita, and even his mentor Antinoya is still the kind of 50+ existence, so there is basically no room for him to play.
So many times, Zhao Xu simply learns passively, and sometimes thinks too much and is easy to be educated.
But when he arrived in this "Winter City", he couldn't help but think carefully about his every move, just like the escort experience in the Tianbei Business Alliance before.
Sometimes, one less link in thinking means that everything is wrong.
It stands to reason that the "Star Cloak" he is wearing is not recognizable to the other party, but he may guess that it is a magic item.
And the "+1 Nether" scythe on his back, because of the looming nature of the Netherworld itself, it is easy to be observed as a magic weapon.
It's just that the "Nether" feature is a good hand to fight ghosts, and it is a free gift to beat players.
At this time, Zhao Xu had already reacted, and he acted "recklessly" this time.
From the moment the bartender in the tavern refused to pay any attention to him, he should have realized that he was a foreigner to this "Winter City".
It is a "black household" who does not have a resident certificate and has not paid any entry tax.
So he disappeared suddenly, and even the city guards and the entire security system didn't even know that there was such a thing.
Especially since they are the players themselves as projections, they don't even have to deal with the corpses.
In addition, players like to kill each other for a breath, so unless there is a player holding a position in Winter City, the general security system will not intervene.
Judging by the fact that the mage has a maximum of 1 level 4, 4 level 2, and most of them level 1, his actions just now are equivalent to a child holding gold and walking into trouble.
If you don't do anything to him, the local people will be simple to a certain extent.
Zhao Xu, who knew that he had just made a mistake, didn't feel too annoyed, anyway, it wasn't the first time that those five people watched this kind of business, so he directly used a spell to slash those five people.
At the beginning, he directly fired the second ring "flash dust", which was actually a disguised control spell, paralyzing the combat power of several people on the spot, and also achieving the purpose of letting him leave the battlefield first.
After Zhao Xu exploded in the flash dust, he also performed the "invisibility technique" on himself.
If Zhao Xu activates the invisibility ring first and then releases the glitter dust, then his whole body will be covered with those golden particles, which is completely covering his ears and stealing the bell.
And after Zhao Xu succeeded in stealing, he actually avoided the group and tried to find a safe and reasonable position.
Let him envelop the five people with a wave of fireball techniques and clear the field directly.
Among the level 1 players, the barbarian with the highest initial life dice is D12, and combined with the characteristic that the level 1 health can be full, that is, 12HP, even if the constitution is 18 points full, the adjustment value is +4.
The initial health of such a barbarian who did not use special means in the early stage was 16HP, which was already equal to Zhao Xu's health at level 3.
And the "Barbarian" is stacked with the "Berserk" ability, and the health is stacked to 18HP.
is still under the threat of Zhao Xu's fireball technique 18 points of expected damage.
Those five players and four guards are basically not a level 2 player.
Therefore, Zhao Xu chose the spot where the fireball technique landed on the spot when those people were suspicious and gathered together to desperately open the door and prepare to escape.
Then a six-meter radius of the area fixed-point bombing spell - "Fireball Technique", directly completed the clearing effect on nine people.
Even if there are still those who are still breathing, they can't withstand Zhao Xu's final "magic missile", when his caster level reaches level 5, the magic missile is already three spells in one shot, and when it comes to the level 9 caster level, the number can still reach as many as 5, which is also the upper limit.
Spell selection is also a headache for spells in the future.
Arthur's magic is prepared in advance, so the radius of the area of action of the spell is set at the beginning.
So many times, it's not that the "colorful spray" is not fragrant, it's not that the "fireball technique" is not fierce, but everyone really doesn't care about throwing it, that is, the rhythm of taking away teammates and enemies together.
Zhao Xu was once in the melee in the canyon, and he didn't care about releasing a "colorful spray" at his teammates and enemies, and after knocking everyone down, he relied on the intervention of the four players around him who did not participate in the battle, forming a situation where there were more people fighting and fewer people fighting.
If you want to avoid hitting your teammates, the only way for a normal mage is to learn the "Spell Shaping", a super magic specialty that changes the area affected by a spell.
If you are more capable, you can also change the form of spells on the spot through the advanced professional ability of the "Archmage", which can also change the form of the spell on the spot.
Of course, Zhao Xu waited until he advanced to the "Spell Guard" in the future, and when he learned the ability of "Selective Spell", he would be able to release the spell, so that his teammates could ignore the effect of the spell, so that the spell would only take effect on the enemy.
This is the most powerful and versatile capability.
After Zhao Xu briefly reviewed the gains and losses of the battle he had just had, he returned to the "Grocery Square".
With a sudden 1000GP, he can naturally seize the opportunity to fill the gap in his strength again.
In particular, there are some secrets that may be passed down from the mouths of these perennial wanderers.
Approaching them, you will also be able to get the inside story.
The layout of Winter City's "Grocery Plaza" is similar to that of the vegetable market stalls on Earth, basically one person, one area.
Most of the owners of the goods are busy with their own business in the stalls, and even bring the food guys to come over and sell while rushing to work, but the quality of the work is discounted.
The square is crowded with people, even if they have no demand, they are all circulating in front of these stalls, looking at a novelty.
The things in the grocery square are roughly divided into several categories, the rarest must be holding magic items, ranging from scrolls to magic weapons, but these valuable items are generally made by specialized store elites, and most of them are defective products that are not easy to sell.
And the rest are many items excavated from various ruins and tombs.
Because most of those digging items are cheap to deal with, even if they can't detect the efficacy of those items by simple means, the cost of 100 gold coins is still very high.
In fact, many people use magic items, and even before they die, they don't necessarily know whether they have used the full effects of magic items.
If you can save, you can save, which is the mainstream of Arthur's low-level adventurers.
Not everyone has "trap goggles" like Zhao Xu and has enough spell slots to cast "detection magic" spells.
The remaining category of items in the square is "alchemy items", which have the most clear effect and are also the most sold.
A set of "alchemy tools", enough alchemy materials, an alchemy schematic, and enough craft (alchemy) skills, you can rely on this craft to make a living.
This is also the reason why Arthur's current "alchemy" has become the mainstream skill of part-time jobs, and the "weapon-making" craft has not succeeded in catching up.
After all, it is more self-sufficient than other part-time job skills, such as professional (driver), professional (cook), professional (farmer), and does not depend on the weather for food.
And many players choose to sell their alchemy items in the grocery square, more or less because the alchemy store itself has a stable supply of channels and a stable quality.
Individual customers like them can't sell at a good price before they make a good reputation because of their uneven quality.
Zhao Xu's trip was also to supplement some "alchemy items" for himself, and by the way, to see if he could rely on his "identification technique" to find a Taobao.
After all, in Mystra, where mage apprentices per capita, an ancient coin falls to the ground, and the people around can tell the ins and outs of the coin.
In addition, although the one-ring appraisal technique is expensive, after guessing eighty or ninety percent with valuation skills, everyone feels that they are willing to gamble if they can return to their original cost.
Because of Mystra, it is really possible to find a shop that can perform "identification" at any time within 100 meters.
On the contrary, in this winter city, if you want to find a mage who prepares the "appraisal technique", you have to make an appointment in advance, so that the other party can specially prepare the "appraisal technique" tomorrow.
Zhao Xu's gaze directly crossed the most mainstream and dazzling positions in the grocery square, the wool was out of the sheep, and the cost of those leases was not paid by buyers like them.
And because there is a lot of traffic there, the probability of successfully picking up the leak is also very low.
Zhao Xu scanned the past from house to house, but he didn't look at the goods on the table, but at the people.
Zhao Xu, who has been a sheriff, can tell which people have come to the grocery plaza for a long time to sell their ancestral treasures, which people are just two dealers doing differential trading, and which people are just returning from tomb robbery, and the treasures in their hands are hot.
It's just that Zhao Xu's gaze suddenly froze and stayed on a player dressed as a warlock.
Zhao Xu didn't expect that he would actually meet an acquaintance, or the kind of acquaintance who finally became a high-level person in Winter City.